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...Collor reversed a long-standing government policy that treated the Amazon basin principally as a source of wood products and a locale for development. He declared that he would work vigorously to stop the burning of the forest by ranchers and settlers, then appointed Brazil's foremost environmental activist, Jose Lutzenberger, to enforce the program. In an interview with TIME, Collor was unapologetic about the abrupt turnaround. "On questions of ecology, we have made a fundamental commitment to life," he said. "We have nothing to hide and nothing to explain...
Being a State Department bureaucrat has its occasional unexpected rewards, including a chance recently to rain on Ted Turner's parade. The flamboyant entrepreneur and cable mogul wanted State to issue a visa to Jose Ramon Fernandez, the Cuban Vice President who oversees athletic development and competition, so that the official could accompany Cuba's delegation to the Goodwill Games in Seattle. No dice. A presidential directive bars Cuban Communist Party members from traveling to the U.S. for anything other than official business. The Goodwill Games, which have been plugged so insistently on Turner's TV outlets that some...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Jose M. Ferrer III, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...
...Gold Rush II hasn't quite happened. Nobody will go broke; some actors, directors and producers are raking in fees that would make Jose Canseco envious. But the ticket lines are shorter. Variety's Art Murphy, grand statmaster of movie grosses, projects this summer's take as $1.85 billion, down 9% from last year's. Total Recall has already earned more than $105 million, and Dick Tracy and Die Hard 2 could earn that and more before Labor Day. But other pictures have already started to run out of steam, especially pricey sequels like Another 48 Hrs., RoboCop 2, Gremlins...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Jose M. Ferrer III, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...